Sal Marshall

Sal Marshall (1911-), born Salvatore Marcigliano, was an Italian-American resident physician in Brooklyn, New York City during the 1940s and 1950s.

Biography
Salvatore Marcigliano was born in Catania, Sicily in 1911, and he emigrated to the United States as a young age and settled in Brooklyn, New York City. He officially qualified as a physician, and he opened a clinic on Nassau Street and Farragut Street, earning extra money on the side by prescribing painkillers to junkies and addicts, including the heroin and morphine-addicted Brooklyn police chief.